U.S. Poet Laureate Reading and Webchat

"National Poetry Month: A Conversation with Natasha Trethewey" was hosted by the American Corner in the Main Library, Crescent Building, on Tuesday, April 22nd. The program consisted of an interactive video webcast of a poetry reading by Natasha Trethewey, the U.S. Poet Laureate, and Christopher Merrill, Director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, who read their poetry and then fielded questions via live web chat.
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TESOL Journals

The Libraries Deanship is pleased to announce that it has subscribed to the online
versions of
TESOL Quarterly and
TESOL Journal, refereed journals for linguists, teacher and students
of English as a second or other language. Click here
for more information.

Expanding Cambridge Journals Collection

The Libraries Deanship is pleased to announce that it has expanded the collection
of Cambridge e-journals. Our Cambridge e-journals subscription now provides access
to current issues of over 300 leading academic journals in Science, Technology and
Medicine and the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Click here to browse the titles of new journals.

Scopus (New Database)

The Libraries Deanship is pleased to announce that the United Arab Emirates University
now subscribes to Scopus from Elsevier. Scopus is an abstract and citation database
that covers more than 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 publishers. The subjects
covered include: scientific, technical, medical and social sciences and arts and
humanities.
Click here to access Scopus or you can find it in the list of
Databases

New E-books for the UAEU Community

The Libraries Deanship is pleased to announce that it has recently purchased a new
collection of e-books from Cambridge University Press. This includes around 900
titles covering the following subjects: Law, Education and Middle East Studies &
Islam.
This collection and all other e-book collections are accessible to the UAEU community
through the Library website.

Additional E-books for the UAEU Community

The Libraries Deanship is pleased to announce that it has expanded the Springer
e-books collection, adding 2011 and 2012 published titles of around 9000 books.Click here for details

ESL and Applied Linguistics Resources

The Libraries Deanship is pleased to announce that the American Corner (in the Main
Library, Crescent Building, D2) has recently acquired more than 200 academic books
in ESL and Applied Linguistics to support students in learning English, as well
as graduate students and faculty in their research in University College, Education,
Linguistics and Translation. Click here for more
information.

NEW! Text-to-Speech Software for the Blind

The Libraries Deanship recently purchased IBSAR from Sakhr Software – an Arabic/English
Text-to-Speech software for the blind and visually impaired. IBSAR is able to convert
text to audio using library PCs (headphones required), or onto MP3 audio devices
for listening on the go. An additional feature is the OCR scanning component, which
reads “scanned” printed documents and images and translates them into electronic
files that are able to be edited. Click here
for more information.